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1862 diary excerpt of Andrew Somerville, second registrar of Huntingdon County, Quebec

Association pour l'autobiographie et le patrimoine autobiographique (APA)

France.

Diary of an 1892 Farmer's Wife

Josephine Jordan was a potato farmer's wife in Aroostook County, Maine.

Findmypast - Ontario, Canada- Diary of A Voyage From Scotland To Canada, 1833 $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Florida Memory - Historical Records - Family Papers, Letters, Diaries

Bevins, Chalker, Call, Brevard, Gramling, Jesup, Letterbook, Brooks.

Index to Missing People Found in Victoria Police Correspondence Records

An index of letters sent to the Police department in Victoria, Australia seeking assistance in contacting missing people. The letters came from all over the world and date from 1853 to 1930.

Johanna's 1921 Diary: Journey to America - Germanology Unlocked

Diary of a young girl emigrating from Germany to America during the week she is on the ship in 1921.

John Osborn Diaries, Union County, NC, 1800-1802 & 1819-1821

Letters by Candlelight: An Original Victorian Diary

A book for sale by by C.L. Bennett. This is an original handwritten diary beginning in the year 1861, when Queen Victoria was on the throne in England and Charles Dickens was at the height of his fame. It was found by chance in a dusty attic in Cambridge, England and is full of fascinating historic detail. The writer was a young gentleman called William Holmes-Carter. He was from a rich family of Nottingham Lace Manufacturers but he himself lived in lodgings in Clifton, Bristol, where he worked as a managing clerk in a solicitors. He later moved to another solicitor's practice in Pembrokeshire and then when his brother passed away he decided to take over his brother's business in Sheffield. The diary is a personal account of everything that happens to him over a four year period and his thoughts and feelings.

Letters From America To Preston, England

Referencing the POTTER, CLARKE, BIMSON and WHINFIELD families 1852 - 1887. The letters were written by Bimson and Clarke family members in Adams county, Illinois, to their loved ones in England. They contain interesting information about living conditions and events in Adams County during those early years.

Letters from Forgotten Ancestors

A Tennessee Genealogy History Project.

Letters of 1916 - A Year in the Life

The Letters of 1916 project is the first public humanities project in Ireland. It is creating a crowd-sourced digital collection of letters written around the time of the Easter Rising (1 November 1915

Library of Michigan - Early Michigan Diaries and Autobiographies

Maine Diaries

Maine Diary Directory and letters from a Maine man in the 1849 CA Gold Rush.

New England diaries, 1602-1800, a descriptive catalogue of diaries, orderly books and sea journals. (HathiTrust)

By Harriette Merrifield Forbes.

OKBits - Old Family Letters

Letters from early day Oklahoma and Indian Territories and shortly after statehood in 1907.

Papers Past

Digitised New Zealand and Pacific newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2015 the National Library added a collection of historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1935. Also Magazines and Journals; Letters and Diaries; Parliamentary Papers.

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters

Digital collection integrates two collections from the holdings of the Nebraska State Historical Society, the Solomon D. Butcher photographs and the letters of the Uriah W. Oblinger family. Together they illustrate the story of settlement on the Great Plains.

SDGenWeb Pioneer Letters

Letters written by South Dakota pioneers in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869

A collection of the original writings of 49 voyagers on the Mormon, California, Oregon, and Montana trails.